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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast...more

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Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, h...more

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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

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This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of s...more

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Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we ...more

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We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny

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Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are of two kinds: errors th...more